pleg-stów
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pleg-stów
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As a place-name Plaistow.]
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pleg-stów
, e ; f. A place for play, a gymnasium, wrestling-place, amphitheatre :-- Oretstówe ł winstówe ł plegstówe scammatis, Hpt. Gl. 405, 41. Plegstówe amphitheatri, Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 13. On plegstówe (bleg-, MS.) oððe on wafungstówe andbidian hine gesihþ styrunge sume getácnaþ if a man in a dream sees himself waiting in an amphitheatre or theatre it betokens some disturbance, Lchdm. iii. 206, 15. Plegstów[a] ł winstówe palaestrarum, Hpt. Gl. 478, 50. Plegstówa palestrarum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 50. On plegestówum in gymnasio, 40, 20.